The Crazy Water marvel brought forth the need for more sleeping facilities, and the Crazy Hotel was built by a Dallas man, Carr P. Collins in 1927. The Crazy Hotel featured 200 guest rooms, shops, a dining room, doctor's office, florist, barbershop, bookstore, recreation department, drinking pavilion and a bathhouse. This seven story hotel also...
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There’s Crazy Water here!
I got on Hwy 281 in Lampasas, Texas and headed north to a town named Mineral Wells.
Mineral Wells got its name from the mineral springs in the area, and were famously popular in the early 1900's. Texas is known to have the second most mineral springs in any state with Wyoming having the most.
In 1877,...
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The Mighty Oaks
Saturday, April 20, 2013, the oak trees at Toomer’s Corner in Auburn, Alabama, were rolled for the last time.
A time-honored tradition, that began when Toomer’s Drug Store would toss telegraph paper over the power lines to let the people of Auburn know...
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK!
...we were off! Now, the BEST way to see "The City" is with someone who lives there, and lucky for me, my girlfriend has lived there for the past 20 something years. No tourist map was needed!
Let me start out by saying, IT WAS COLD! I'm not complaining, (I prefer the cold, and I have...
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